Valabhī,Valabhicity of ancient India that was the capital of the Maitraka dynasty in the 5th–8th century ADcenturies CE. It was situated on an inlet of the Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay(Khambhāt), northwest of the port of Bhavnagar, in Saurāṣṭra Saurastra (later GujarātGujarat), western India. The city is thought to have been established about AD470 CEby the founder of the dynasty, Senāpati BhaṭārkaSenapati Bhatarka, during the period when the Gupta empire was breaking upweakened. It continued as capital until about 780, when it suddenly and unaccountably disappeared from history. It apparently survived the Arab invasions of Saurāṣṭra Saurastra about 725–735.

Valabhī Valabhi was a celebrated centre of learning, with numerous Buddhist monasteries. It was visited by the Chinese pilgrim Hsüan-tsang Xuanzang in the middle of the 7th century and by I-ching Yijing at the century’s close. The latter described it as equaling the fame of Nālandā in Bihārthe Buddhist monastic centre Nalanda, in Bihar. According to a Jaina tradition, the second Jaina Council council was held in Valabhī Valabhi in the 5th or 6th century ADCE; at this council the Jaina scriptures assumed their present form. The city has now vanished, but it is identified with a village, Vala, where numerous copperplate inscriptions and seals of the Maitrakas have been found.